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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Berliner who wrote (5572)	4/20/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: J.L. Turner	Respond to of 9818

From the US Public Building Service web site. list of defective components: y2k.lmi.org Lots of things here fire alarms, energy managment, access control etc. lists things like: part numbers, problem, fix and manufacturer,and this disclaimer: "Information contained in this website is based upon company responses alone and is not guaranteed by GSA or LMI to be accurate. GSA or LMI has not independently tested the systems for Year 2000 compliance and recommends that the information be verified with" Now there is 31 pages of non compliant components.How did GSA determine these components to be non-compliant?They didn't test because their disclaimer says they didn't.I think it was done something like this: Jed(from GSA) calls his buddy Joe(from any vendor) Jed: Hey Joe I got with this damn components list your part #xyz,is it y2k compliant? Joe:Donna no Jed what is it? Jed:Hell I don't know I didn't buy it,just look up the number and see if its compliant. Joe:It's on our non-compliant list.You have to buy all new ones they only cost $847.50 each. Jed:But my list has the price at $29.99 Joe;But you know how it is everyone,needs these things because of y2k Now to not test the non-compliant components is bad enough but they did not test the compliant components either, BOTH types of component are covered by the disclosure statement.I will leave it to others to comment on specifics.We simply don't know how many embedded systems are claimed to be compliant and that will fail. On the software side we have this: news.com.au QUOTE/ Feilder, an adviser to the Australian, British and South African governments on the year 2000 or Y2K computer glitch, says that personal or desktop computers have taken a back seat in the millennium bug debate because senior management remains largely unaware of just how crucial these computers have become. He points to the fact that surveys worldwide show that about 64 per cent of mission critical data is kept in desktop computers, compared with 8 per cent in mainframes and the rest in small to mid-range systems. "PCs aren't just a toy sitting on your desk," Feilder says. "Yet most executives don't realise the state to which PCs are mission critical." UNQUOTE/ QUOTE/ Greenwich Mean Time also found non-compliance problems with the programs running desktop computers. Of the the 4000 software packages selected worldwide, 2568 exhibited 73 different categories of non-compliant Y2K-related behaviour. Of those 2568 programs, 724 were claimed to be Y2K compliant by their suppliers." That folks is a 28% failure rate from programs that were rated compliant by the vendors. J.L.T.